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H. P. Lovecraft Quotes: It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism.
         

It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism.


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